In this episode, Louisa is joined by Olivia, who has been sober for eight years and brings a grounded, deeply wise perspective to the conversation. They explore Olivia’s journey into sobriety and how it has transformed not only her life, but the way she feels about herself. Olivia shares her thoughts on experiencing more magic in everyday life without alcohol, and how sobriety has allowed her to cultivate self-trust, authenticity and a genuine sense of inner peace. This is a calm, reflective, and uplifting episode that gently reminds listeners of the richness that sobriety can offer.

Olivia is a Trauma-Informed Alcohol-Free Coach and Mentor with an MSc in Health Psychology and the host of the podcast, No More Booze. You'll find her on Instagram here @greyareadrinker.

Louisa is a psychology-based practitioner and therapist based in the UK and works with clients worldwide via Zoom. She supports people who want to change their relationship with alcohol and also works with anxiety, low mood and overthinking. If you’d like to explore 1 to 1 support, you can find out more at www.louisaevans.com.

Useful links:

Instagram: @stepping_into_sobriety - for daily sober encouragement

Substack: Beyond Sobriety.- weekly articles, relaxation downloads and community, focussed on thriving in a sober life.

Audible: Becoming a Sober Rebel - audiobook on how Louisa stepped into sobriety on her own terms.

Don’t forget, as a Sober Rebel listener, you can get a 30% discount off the Sober Resilience Online Course using code RESILIENCE544 and you will also be able to buy one get one free on all hypnosis recordings on Louisa's website using code SOBERREBEL.

The podcast is back after a short break. In this episode Louisa talks to Tracey who celebrated two years sobriety at Christmas. Tracey talks about how sneaky she would be as a drinker even though to the outside world she only drank a couple of times a week, she still didn't feel she had an off switch.

Louisa is a psychology-based practitioner and therapist based in the UK and works with clients worldwide via Zoom. She supports people who want to change their relationship with alcohol and also works with anxiety, low mood and overthinking. If you’d like to explore 1 to 1 support, you can find out more at www.louisaevans.com.

Useful links:

Instagram: @stepping_into_sobriety - for daily sober encouragement

Substack: Beyond Sobriety.- weekly articles, relaxation downloads and community, focussed on thriving in a sober life.

Audible: Becoming a Sober Rebel - audiobook on how Louisa stepped into sobriety on her own terms.

Don’t forget, as a Sober Rebel listener, you can get a 30% discount off the Sober Resilience Online Course using code RESILIENCE544 and you will also be able to buy one get one free on all hypnosis recordings on Louisa's website using code SOBERREBEL.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

In this episode, the topic is in the many gains you'll have experienced in this month and will ask you to consider extending your sobriety for longer to see what else could happen...

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month and beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today the focus is on other people's reflections on their sobriety, including the many guests on the regular Sober Rebel podcast and those amazing women who took part in Louisa's MSc Psychology interviews for her dissertation on Alcohol, Sobriety and Menopause.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today Louisa reflects on her sobriety over the last three years, talking about those personal turning points for her in that journey.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Most people's goal when trying to moderate is to be a weekend drinker. But let's look at what the real cost of that pattern of drinking is. Sobriety is actually true freedom. Anything you can do to reframe what alcohol offers really helps and so today the focus is the drinking maths and how much time and energy lost to drinking.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

The most common concern in longer term sobriety is how to cope with special events and holidays and how you can enjoy them without alcohol. Today talks about teh truth of what each of those things feels like sober.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today is a Q&A episodes with commonly asked questions at this point.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

The subject today is the return of self respect as your behaviour is now inline with doing things that support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Sobriety begins to feel a bit more normal by this point, it's the point that you realise everything feels uneventful in a good way. The tug of war is quieter in your head. This is also where you begin functioning effectively rather than managing yourself.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable.

For listeners who want extra support during this month, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26. The course includes practical tools for cravings, emotional steadiness, behavioural patterns, routines and the predictable identity wobble that often appears in early sobriety. All of Louisa’s work, including her therapy practice and additional resources, can be found at www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is known for her direct, psychology-led approach and her ability to make sobriety feel accessible rather than overwhelming. Her work is centred on clarity, honesty and understanding the patterns underneath drinking, rather than relying on force or perfectionism.